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Mark Zuckerberg releases Facemash
Facemash, the prelude to Facebook, is described as Harvard University's version of Hot or Not. -
Zuckerberg launches Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook as a sophomore at Harvard University. It is a Harvard-only network. -
thefacbook.com Form LLC
Harvard classmates Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes form Thefacebook.com LLC. At the time, it was known as Thefacebook. -
Facebook Gets Its First Investor
Venture capitalist Peter Thiel after seeing promise in the new company invests US$500,000. -
Sean Parker Becomes President of Facebook
Facebook incorporates into a new company. Sean Parker, founder of Napster, becomes Facebook's president. -
Facebook Moves To Palo Alto
Facebook moves its headquarters to Palo Alto, California. -
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss Start Legal Action
The introduction of 'the Wall', which allow people to writes statements on profile pages. Facebook becomes the target of a lawsuit claiming that Zuckerberg had stolen the idea for Facebook from the twins and a third person. -
thefacebook.com Becomes Facebook.com
Facebook acquires Facebook.com domain for $200,000 -
Yahoo! Offers $1 Billion For Facebook
Yahoo! offers to buy Facebook for $1 billion. Facebook rejects the offer. -
Facebook Launches News Feed
The original news feed is algorithmically generated and constantly refreshes, showing a summary of updates about the activities of one's friends. -
Facebook Becomes Worth $15 Billion
Facebook agrees to sell a 1.6 percent stake to Microsoft for $240 million, valuing Facebook at $15 billion. -
Facebook Unveils Its Beacon Program
Beacon is part of Facebook's advertisement system that sends data from external websites to Facebook. The program allows targeted advertisements and allowing users to share their activities with their friends. -
Facebook introduces Chat.
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Facebook Activates The Facebook Like Button
Facebook introduces Like, allowing people to endorse other people's posts. -
Facebook overtakes MySpace
Facebook overtakes MySpace to become the Internet's largest social network. -
"The Social Network" Comes Out
"The Social Network," a movie about Zuckerberg and the legal battles over Facebook's founding, is released. It receives eight Academy Awards nominations and wins three. Mark Zuckerberg says that the film is a largely inaccurate account of what happened. -
The Winklevoss Twins End Their Legal Battle
The Winklevoss twins end their legal battle over the intellectual rights of Facebook. They had settled with Facebook for $65 million in 2008, but later sought more money. -
Facebook Introduces Timeline
Facebook introduces Timeline, a new version of the profile page. It's meant to show highlights from a person's entire life rather than recent posts. Facebook login page changes due to Facebook Timeline addition. -
Facebook Files For An Initial Public Offering.
Facebook files for an initial public offering of stock. A few weeks later, it unveils new advertising opportunities for brands, allowing ads to mix in with Facebook status updates and photos. -
Facebook Plans To Buy Instagram
Facebook announces plans to buy Instagram, a photo-sharing social network, for $1 billion in cash and stock. -
Facebooks Buys Instagram
The U.S. government clears Facebook's Instagram deal. With Facebook's stock price lower, the deal is now valued at about $740 million. -
Facebook Unveils New Search Feature
Facebook unveils a search feature that lets users quickly sift through their social connections for information about people, interests, photos and places. -
Facebook Officially Completes The Acquisition Of WhatsApp
Facebook officially completes the acquisition of WhatsApp, and WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum agrees to match Mark Zuckerberg's $1 salary. -
Facebook Confirms Official Support For GIFs
Autoplay settings for GIFs would be the same as those for videos: users who have video autoplay set to on (the default setting) will have GIFs autoplay when they scroll to the GIF in their news feed. Others can play the GIF manually by clicking the GIF button on the feed item with the GIF. -
1 Billion Users In One Day
Facebook announces that it has hit the milestone of 1 billion users accessing it on a single day -
Facebook Releases Facebook Reactions
Facebook releases Facebook Reactions to the general public. The feature allows people to use five additional reactions beyond just the "like" action to convey their reaction to a post. The new reactions are "love", "haha", "wow", "sad", and "anger". -
Basketball Game Is Introduced to Messenger
Facebook provide "Basketball Game" function in Messenger.
